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k a May Highlights and 2025 AoPS Online Class Information
jlacosta 0
May 1, 2025
May is an exciting month! National MATHCOUNTS is the second week of May in Washington D.C. and our Founder, Richard Rusczyk will be presenting a seminar, Preparing Strong Math Students for College and Careers, on May 11th.
Are you interested in working towards MATHCOUNTS and don’t know where to start? We have you covered! If you have taken Prealgebra, then you are ready for MATHCOUNTS/AMC 8 Basics. Already aiming for State or National MATHCOUNTS and harder AMC 8 problems? Then our MATHCOUNTS/AMC 8 Advanced course is for you.
Summer camps are starting next month at the Virtual Campus in math and language arts that are 2 - to 4 - weeks in duration. Spaces are still available - don’t miss your chance to have an enriching summer experience. There are middle and high school competition math camps as well as Math Beasts camps that review key topics coupled with fun explorations covering areas such as graph theory (Math Beasts Camp 6), cryptography (Math Beasts Camp 7-8), and topology (Math Beasts Camp 8-9)!
Be sure to mark your calendars for the following upcoming events:
[list][*]May 9th, 4:30pm PT/7:30pm ET, Casework 2: Overwhelming Evidence — A Text Adventure, a game where participants will work together to navigate the map, solve puzzles, and win! All are welcome.
[*]May 19th, 4:30pm PT/7:30pm ET, What's Next After Beast Academy?, designed for students finishing Beast Academy and ready for Prealgebra 1.
[*]May 20th, 4:00pm PT/7:00pm ET, Mathcamp 2025 Qualifying Quiz Part 1 Math Jam, Problems 1 to 4, join the Canada/USA Mathcamp staff for this exciting Math Jam, where they discuss solutions to Problems 1 to 4 of the 2025 Mathcamp Qualifying Quiz!
[*]May 21st, 4:00pm PT/7:00pm ET, Mathcamp 2025 Qualifying Quiz Part 2 Math Jam, Problems 5 and 6, Canada/USA Mathcamp staff will discuss solutions to Problems 5 and 6 of the 2025 Mathcamp Qualifying Quiz![/list]
Our full course list for upcoming classes is below:
All classes run 7:30pm-8:45pm ET/4:30pm - 5:45pm PT unless otherwise noted.
Introductory: Grades 5-10
Prealgebra 1 Self-Paced
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Friday, May 23 - Aug 15
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Tues & Thurs, Jul 8 - Aug 14 (meets twice a week!)
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Tues & Thurs, Jul 8 - Aug 14 (meets twice a week!)
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Sunday, May 11 - Jun 8
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Tuesday, May 27 - Aug 12
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Sunday, May 18 - Jun 15
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Thursday, May 22 - Jul 31
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Sunday, Jun 22 - Sep 21
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Wednesday, Jun 11 - Aug 27
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Introduction to Physics
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Relativity
Mon, Tue, Wed & Thurs, Jun 23 - Jun 26 (meets every day of the week!)
Are you interested in working towards MATHCOUNTS and don’t know where to start? We have you covered! If you have taken Prealgebra, then you are ready for MATHCOUNTS/AMC 8 Basics. Already aiming for State or National MATHCOUNTS and harder AMC 8 problems? Then our MATHCOUNTS/AMC 8 Advanced course is for you.
Summer camps are starting next month at the Virtual Campus in math and language arts that are 2 - to 4 - weeks in duration. Spaces are still available - don’t miss your chance to have an enriching summer experience. There are middle and high school competition math camps as well as Math Beasts camps that review key topics coupled with fun explorations covering areas such as graph theory (Math Beasts Camp 6), cryptography (Math Beasts Camp 7-8), and topology (Math Beasts Camp 8-9)!
Be sure to mark your calendars for the following upcoming events:
[list][*]May 9th, 4:30pm PT/7:30pm ET, Casework 2: Overwhelming Evidence — A Text Adventure, a game where participants will work together to navigate the map, solve puzzles, and win! All are welcome.
[*]May 19th, 4:30pm PT/7:30pm ET, What's Next After Beast Academy?, designed for students finishing Beast Academy and ready for Prealgebra 1.
[*]May 20th, 4:00pm PT/7:00pm ET, Mathcamp 2025 Qualifying Quiz Part 1 Math Jam, Problems 1 to 4, join the Canada/USA Mathcamp staff for this exciting Math Jam, where they discuss solutions to Problems 1 to 4 of the 2025 Mathcamp Qualifying Quiz!
[*]May 21st, 4:00pm PT/7:00pm ET, Mathcamp 2025 Qualifying Quiz Part 2 Math Jam, Problems 5 and 6, Canada/USA Mathcamp staff will discuss solutions to Problems 5 and 6 of the 2025 Mathcamp Qualifying Quiz![/list]
Our full course list for upcoming classes is below:
All classes run 7:30pm-8:45pm ET/4:30pm - 5:45pm PT unless otherwise noted.
Introductory: Grades 5-10
Prealgebra 1 Self-Paced
Prealgebra 1
Tuesday, May 13 - Aug 26
Thursday, May 29 - Sep 11
Sunday, Jun 15 - Oct 12
Monday, Jun 30 - Oct 20
Wednesday, Jul 16 - Oct 29
Prealgebra 2 Self-Paced
Prealgebra 2
Wednesday, May 7 - Aug 20
Monday, Jun 2 - Sep 22
Sunday, Jun 29 - Oct 26
Friday, Jul 25 - Nov 21
Introduction to Algebra A Self-Paced
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Sunday, May 11 - Sep 14 (1:00 - 2:30 pm ET/10:00 - 11:30 am PT)
Wednesday, May 14 - Aug 27
Friday, May 30 - Sep 26
Monday, Jun 2 - Sep 22
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Introduction to Counting & Probability Self-Paced
Introduction to Counting & Probability
Thursday, May 15 - Jul 31
Sunday, Jun 1 - Aug 24
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Wednesday, Jul 9 - Sep 24
Sunday, Jul 27 - Oct 19
Introduction to Number Theory
Friday, May 9 - Aug 1
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Sunday, May 11 - Nov 9
Tuesday, May 20 - Oct 28
Monday, Jun 16 - Dec 8
Friday, Jun 20 - Jan 9
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Monday, Jul 14 - Jan 19
Paradoxes and Infinity
Mon, Tue, Wed, & Thurs, Jul 14 - Jul 16 (meets every day of the week!)
Intermediate: Grades 8-12
Intermediate Algebra
Sunday, Jun 1 - Nov 23
Tuesday, Jun 10 - Nov 18
Wednesday, Jun 25 - Dec 10
Sunday, Jul 13 - Jan 18
Thursday, Jul 24 - Jan 22
Intermediate Counting & Probability
Wednesday, May 21 - Sep 17
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Intermediate Number Theory
Sunday, Jun 1 - Aug 24
Wednesday, Jun 18 - Sep 3
Precalculus
Friday, May 16 - Oct 24
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Advanced: Grades 9-12
Olympiad Geometry
Tuesday, Jun 10 - Aug 26
Calculus
Tuesday, May 27 - Nov 11
Wednesday, Jun 25 - Dec 17
Group Theory
Thursday, Jun 12 - Sep 11
Contest Preparation: Grades 6-12
MATHCOUNTS/AMC 8 Basics
Friday, May 23 - Aug 15
Monday, Jun 2 - Aug 18
Thursday, Jun 12 - Aug 28
Sunday, Jun 22 - Sep 21
Tues & Thurs, Jul 8 - Aug 14 (meets twice a week!)
MATHCOUNTS/AMC 8 Advanced
Sunday, May 11 - Aug 10
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Tues & Thurs, Jul 8 - Aug 14 (meets twice a week!)
AMC 10 Problem Series
Friday, May 9 - Aug 1
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Sunday, Jun 22 - Sep 21 (1:00 - 2:30 pm ET/10:00 - 11:30 am PT)
Monday, Jun 23 - Sep 15
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AMC 10 Final Fives
Sunday, May 11 - Jun 8
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AMC 12 Problem Series
Tuesday, May 27 - Aug 12
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Sunday, Jun 22 - Sep 21
Wednesday, Aug 6 - Oct 22
AMC 12 Final Fives
Sunday, May 18 - Jun 15
AIME Problem Series A
Thursday, May 22 - Jul 31
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Sunday, Jun 22 - Sep 21
F=ma Problem Series
Wednesday, Jun 11 - Aug 27
WOOT Programs
Visit the pages linked for full schedule details for each of these programs!
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Overly wordy problems
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40 minutes ago
by CJB19
Hey everyone, here we can post questions with way to many extraneous words, that are actually easy.
Try to solve the one above yours.
I'll start:
Click to reveal hidden text
Try to solve the one above yours.
I'll start:
Click to reveal hidden text
Maya's parents Kim and Richard invented chocolate bars. Each chocolate bar was 1 dollar. They then became billionaires by scamming children. Maya was 8 years old when she found out she can't get sick from eating too many chocolate bars. Richard decided to make a deal with Maya. For every 4 chocolate bars she ate Maya could exchange the wrappers for another candy bar. Maya spent money on the lottery, and somehow won
! If she spends
dollars on her parents chocolate bars, she can eat
candy bars. Let N & M be positive integers, what is N+M?



4 replies
Math with Connect4 Boards
Math-lover1 7
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2 hours ago
by CJB19
Hi! So I was playing Connect4 with my friends the other day and I wondered: how many "legal" arrangements of Connect4 can be reached at the ending position?
We assume that we do not stop the game when there is a four in a row, and we have 21 red pieces and 21 yellow pieces. We also drop the pieces one by one into a standard 7 by 6 board. We can start the game with any color piece.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connect_Four
Initial Thoughts
Attempt to use one-to-one correspondences
We assume that we do not stop the game when there is a four in a row, and we have 21 red pieces and 21 yellow pieces. We also drop the pieces one by one into a standard 7 by 6 board. We can start the game with any color piece.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connect_Four
Initial Thoughts
This problem seems easy at first; the number of arrangments is simply
However, I quickly saw that some boards

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were impossible to construct by just dropping pieces one by one like a normal game.OOOOOOO
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Attempt to use one-to-one correspondences
After I realized that my Initial Thoughts weren't going to work, I tried to use one-to-one correspondences. I represented the columns as ABCDEFG from left to right and represented dropping the red/yellow pieces as a string of length 21 of these letters. This seemed to solve my problem, but new roadblocks popped up.
Roadblock 1 There is more than one way to represent a certain configuration using this correspondence. A quick example
Roadblock 2 Even if we didn't overcount, we still need to account for the fact that the total number of A, B, C... over both of the strings have to each equal 7. The amount of cases (1 A goes to the red pieces, 6 As go to the yellow pieces,...) would be very difficult to calculate, even using a computer.
Roadblock 1 There is more than one way to represent a certain configuration using this correspondence. A quick example
red pieces fill all the left 3 columns, yellow pieces fill all the right 3 columns
shows that we overcount some configurations by using this method.Roadblock 2 Even if we didn't overcount, we still need to account for the fact that the total number of A, B, C... over both of the strings have to each equal 7. The amount of cases (1 A goes to the red pieces, 6 As go to the yellow pieces,...) would be very difficult to calculate, even using a computer.
7 replies
9 AMC 10 Prep
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2 hours ago
by A7456321
I'm in 7th grade and thought it would be good to start preparing for the AMC 10. I'm not extremely good at math though.
What are some important topics I should study? Please comment below. Thanks! :D
What are some important topics I should study? Please comment below. Thanks! :D
44 replies
Area of Polygon
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2 hours ago
by Wolfpierce
The area of polygon
, in square units, is
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\textbf{(B)}\ 30 \qquad
\textbf{(C)}\ 46 \qquad
\textbf{(D)}\ 66 \qquad
\textbf{(E)}\ 74
\]](http://latex.artofproblemsolving.com/8/2/f/82ffc15072ca99f6cd1abc312781eb4827817356.png)
49 replies
Problem 2, Grade 12th RMO Shortlist - Year 2002
sticknycu 5
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Yesterday at 4:07 PM
by P_Fazioli
Let
and
.
Show:
a)
with multiplication of matrixes operation is making an isomorphic-group structure with
.
b)
.
Marian Andronache


Show:
a)


b)

Marian Andronache
5 replies
3rd AKhIMO for University Students, P1
UzbekMathematician 1
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Yesterday at 3:42 PM
by KAME06
Source: AKhIMO 2025, P1
There are two circles in the
plane centered on the
axis which are tangent to both the parabola
and the line
. Determine the lengths of the circles' diameters.




1 reply
3rd AKhIMO for university students, p4
UzbekMathematician 1
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Yesterday at 2:29 PM
by grupyorum
Source: AKhIMO 2025, P4
Define a sequence
by
and
for all
, where
Show that
is an integer for all
.







1 reply
Double Integral
namesis 3
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Yesterday at 2:27 PM
by Mathzeus1024
The area of integration,
, is defined in plane polar coordinates
by the inequality
, where
and
.
Evaluate:

I tried evaluating the integral in polar, with
from
to
and
from
to
but in vain.





Evaluate:

I tried evaluating the integral in polar, with






3 replies
Japanese Olympiad
parkjungmin 8
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Yesterday at 2:22 PM
by parkjungmin
It's about the Japanese Olympiad
I can't solve it no matter how much I think about it.
If there are people who are good at math
Please help me.
I can't solve it no matter how much I think about it.
If there are people who are good at math
Please help me.
8 replies
3rd AKhIMO for university students, P5
UzbekMathematician 0
Yesterday at 2:10 PM
Source: AKhIMO 2025, P5
Show that for every positive integer
there exist nonnegative integers
and integers
such that




0 replies
Double integral on polar coordinates
Kurchi 1
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Yesterday at 1:54 PM
by Mathzeus1024
How to find the volume inside z=r above r=3+cosθ, with the help of double integral?
1 reply
Recurrence trouble
SomeonecoolLovesMaths 0
Yesterday at 11:27 AM
Let
be real numbers. Define
and
.
Prove that
and hence find the limit.



Prove that

0 replies
Sequence and Series
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Yesterday at 9:24 AM
by alexheinis
Source: Coaching Test
Let
and 
If
for some integers
and
Find the value of


If




1 reply
